Consolation, July 12, 1939

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Contents

All the World Wondering—As Foretold (3) 3

Catholic Church in Germany 5

Bluffing the World to a Standstill 7

Definitely Turning Against Jehovah 9

A Sweet Morsel 11

The New Government 12

Re the Letter to Roosevelt 13

Witnesses in Action in Dover, N. H. 14

Monroe County (N. Y.) Penitentiary 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17

Hate 17

Ku Klux Klan 18

Protestantism 19

Under the Totalitarian Flag 20

Yezidi Devil Worshipers 20

Reply to a Nun in China 21

Co-operation in India 21

The Hierarchy in the Philippine Islands 22

Hierarchy's Sympathies with Japan 23

Blaming It on the "Villagers" 24

Education 25

Money or Barter Under Kingdom Rule? 28

British Comment 28

Anti-Aggression Pact 28

Truth Unpalatable to Some 29

Roman Catholics Angry 29

National and Local Debts 30

United States of America 31

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Appetizers

Hoax

Fiftieth Birthday.

On March 27, Mr. M. Pels, representing the firm of Joseph Weiermann, will celebrate his fiftieth birthday.

Mr. Pels is well known for his integrity, untiring energy and expert knowledge of the retail shoe trade, and his personal charm has won him many friends. May we express the birthday wish that Mr. Pels will remain in our midst for many years to come. (From The Shoe-Market, German trade paper, March 25)

Fiftieth Birthday of M. Pels.

In our issue of March 25 we published a birthday notice about M. Pels, which was sent to us from a source which we believed reliable.

We have been the victims of a hoax. Mr. Pels is a Jew, and we declare the birthday notice about him to be void. (From The Shoe-Market, April 1)

Easy Money

The boss was passing through the packing room when he saw a boy leaning against a box, cheerfully whistling.

"What is your salary?" he barked at the boy.

"Ten dollars a week, sir," was the reply.

"Here's two weeks' pay. In other words, you're fired!"

Later, says Stray Stories Magazine, he met the foreman and asked him when they had hired that boy.

"Why, we never had him working here," was the astonishing answer. "He came over with an order from another firm."

Would Take It

An actress was incensed by the conduct of the old professional in varying his performance slightly when on the stage.

"That was not rehearsed," she said. "If you were my husband I'd knock your head off your shoulders for that."

The old actor looked at her gravely, blandly, steadfastly for a moment. Then he answered:

"Madam, if I were your husband I'd be grateful to merciful Heaven for a sudden end, however dramatic."

CONSOLATION

"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.

Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 12, 1939 Number 517

All the World Wondering—Exactly as Foretold

(In Three Parts—Part 3)

"And I saw one of his heads, as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."—Revelation 13: 3.

GERMANY'S so-called "higher powers" are expending $30,000,000 a year in the United States to accomplish here what was accomplished in the last six years in Germany and Austria. The edicts, as soon as they can be put across, will be in effect as follows:

1. The Constitution of the United States and the Constitutions of the 48 States are hereby repealed.

2. The State and Federal authority, the right to enact laws, the public execution of laws, the entire administration and military command throughout the United States, and within the forty-eight states and adjacent territories are transferred in full to The Fuehrer of the Volksbund and his designated Commissioners.

3. The Congress of the former United States of America and the legislative bodies of the forty-eight states are dissolved. Any person participating in the work of such an institution henceforth will be punished with death.

4. Dismissed officials may no longer, on pain of death, take any part in public affairs.

5. Every American man and woman between the ages of 16 and 50 is liable to public labor service.

6. Every American man and woman between 18 and 45 years of age is liable to auxiliary public service.

7. Freedom of the press is forthwith abolished. All newspaper undertakings and printing works will be closed and their equipment seized in behalf of The Bund. Any published statement damaging to The Bund or the American Reich will render its publishers liable to punishment and expropriation.

8. Every organization of employes and employers is dissolved, as is also every party and political organization. Their property is seized.

9. Lock-outs, strikes and expressions of dissatisfaction are punishable by death.

10. All real and negotiable property belonging to dissenters and Jews is liable to seizure.

11. The Fuehrer and his Commissioners will take immediate steps to eliminate all unemployed persons and others liable to endanger the security of the American Reich. These are to be brought, as required, into concentration camps until such time as plans are completed for their disposal. Anyone evading such transportation will be punished with death.

12. All banks, commodity exchanges, and amusement places are closed until further notice. [From 'Der Fuehrer Speaks']

In the preliminary carving up of Czechoslovakia not a particle of attention was paid to justice or truth. In the town of Hodslovice, in 1930, there were 1,943 Czechs and one German, but the Germans took it. The town of Strambul was 90 percent Czech and 10 percent German, but it had a Portland cement and lime works which the Germans wanted, so they took the town over. Koprivnice, at the census of 1930, had 3,968 Czechs and 622 Germans, but it had an automobile works and a wagon factory, so the Germans took it. Trebovice had a big Czech majority, but it had a new power station which the Germans wanted, so they took the town. Svinov also had a large Czech majority, but it is a railroad junction and has a broadcasting station, so the Germans took it. The same spirit was shown by Poland. Finally, Hitler completely destroyed Czechoslovakia.

Escaping from Hitler

Relatively few people escaped from Czechoslovakia when one of the prize liars of humanity seized the last of that unhappy country. Among the last to go were 1,000 aviators, who seized as many war planes and made their way into Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Russia. These men also made away with formulas for cement mixture, steel alloys and automatic rifle design which the Germans had expected to get. They also drained oil tanks into the earth and showed in every way their hatred of the fiend that now has the world frightened out of its wits.

Some idea of the terrible plight of refugees from Czechoslovakia seeking refuge in Britain may be gathered from the fact that in some instances, on the last day of March, persons flew back and forth from the Netherlands to Britain five times in a single day and some were so desperate that the pilots refused to take them, fearing that they would jump out en route. Heart-rending scenes were enacted at the railroad stations on the Netherlands-Germany border, where hundreds were turned back who did not have British permits.

The merry work of mopping up the last of Protestantism in Central Europe goes steadily forward. Ever since John Huss, rector of the University of Prague, was burned at the stake for condemning some of the unscriptural doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, in 1415, there has been a vigorous stand for honesty, truth and liberty in what was recently Czechoslovakia.

Now all that is passing, being suppressed by the tools of the Papacy operating out of Berlin. The diplomatic correspondent of the Manchester Guardian tells of the shameless methods being used, in the following dispatch:

Under pressure from Berlin the Czechs are compelled to revise the history of their nation. For example, the Husite tradition, which was deeply imbedded in the Czech national consciousness, is being replaced by a Wenceslaus tradition—Wenceslaus, the "good king", being regarded (quite wrongly) as a Germanic Bohemian hero by the Germans, who regard Jan Hus as a purely Czech national hero and leader of an anti-German religious reformation.

This is the more repellant in view of the fact that the King Wenceslaus referred to is designated in history as "Wenceslaus the Worthless" because he was a total loss as a ruler, representing only the Devil, whose servant he was. He died fifteen years before Huss.

Gestapo Arrests in Czechia

With the seizure of Czechia by Hitler the infamous Gestapo (secret police) got under way at once and within a few hours had placed 18,000 persons in concentration camps. A hint of the brutality and severity of the Nazi crowd may be seen in the fact that one woman was arrested for saying that German army uniforms looked sloppy, and a man for making the facetious remark that the Germans would now improve Prague, as they had improved Berlin, by tearing up the streets. A further hint is afforded by the fact that 150 persons were installed in telephone exchanges, so that they might serve as spies on all conversations of suspected Czechs. All correspondents agree that hatred of the invaders by the Czechs is ill concealed. A newspaper, A-Z, was suspended for three days for reproducing a photograph of Hitler that did not suit the vanity of the new master of Central Europe.

Wanting to stay free, Iceland refused permission of the German Lufthansa to open air service between Germany and Iceland, but either the granting or the refusal of a German request today is equivalent to an undeclared war with the Central European monstrosity; and the war could have but one result, surrender. Iceland has no army. This is well known to Germany.

For months past a German warship, the Meteor, has been stationed off Iceland measuring depths of the fiords. German soldiers and mariners march through the streets of Reykjavik in military order. A brother of Marshal Goering, of Germany, is making frequent trips between Iceland and Germany, and German "scientists" have crossed and recrossed the island in all directions, measuring plains and heights, and photographing practically the whole surface.

How About Religion?

Save your tears. Hitler declares that the churches are receiving over 500,000,000 marks a year from taxation and own landed and forest property worth 10,000,000,000 marks.

The Register, boilerplate organ of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the United States, in its Central California edition boasts that though the number of Protestant theological students in Germany is decreasing remarkably every year, yet the number of young men studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood shows a remarkable increase. Thus, in recognized seminaries in Germany, excluding Austria and Czechoslovakia, where there were 4,632 such students in the year 1932-33, there were over 6,000 in the year 1938-39.

Religionists All O.K. with Hitler

◆ In his speech of January 30, 1939, Hitler showed that it is not the religionists, but only their opposites, the real Christians, that need to fear him, when he said:

“They say abroad that we are an anti-religious movement. Against this I declare, firstly, that no one has been persecuted in this country because of their religion, and no one will be.

To be consistent Hitler should have explained that thousands of Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany are in concentration camps, and that the only reason is that they love God and are obedient to Him. Like the Lord Jesus Christ, they have no religion: they are merely Christians.

Special Privileges of the Hierarchy

◆ In the Concordat with the Reich various privileges before other members of the people are granted to the Catholic clergy (exemption of clergymen and students of theology from the universal military service, from acceptance of public offices and the obligations connected therewith that according to canonical law are allegedly inconsistent with ecclesiastical dignity), and various exclusive rights before other churches are conceded to the Catholic church (diplomatic representation at the government of the Reich, special safeguard for Catholic associations and parochial schools, etc.).—Translated from Das Schwarze Korps (official organ of Hitler’s secret police) of February 17, 1938.

Catholic Church in Germany

1932 1935 Incr’se

No. Catholic parishes .......... 11,540 11,702 162

No. Catholic priests ........... 16,729 17,164 435

Catholic theology students ..... 4,632 5,277 645

Clerical order houses .......... 510 525 15

Clerical order members ......... 10,839 13,360 2,521

Catholic nuns .................. 15,000

Earth’s greatest racket

Attendances in the Catholic churches are larger, both in Berlin and in Munich, than they were before Hitler came into power.

Great Increase in Convents

◆ Commenting on the enormous increase in convents in Germany since Hitler came to power, Das Schwarze Korps, official organ of the German Secret State Police (Gestapo), explained in its issue of September 1, 1938, that, whereas in the years from 1920 to 1932 the number of convents in Germany increased from 6,091 to 7,787, or at the rate of a new cage for the blackbirds every 2.59 days for the thirteen-year period, yet since the deal between Hitler and the pope put Hitler in supreme control, in but three years, the number increased from 7,787 to 8,651. This is at the rate of a new convent every 1.27 days; and if the statement is even half true it shows what an enormous and useless burden is being piled upon the backs of the German people in the happy days for the Hierarchy when one of their favored sons came into control of what was once a Protestant country. The ideal of the Hierarchy is that every man should be a priest, every woman a nun, and every infant allowed to live a foundling.

Roman Catholic bishops are expected to visit Rome and confer with the pope every four years, but not oftener unless something special is in the wind. It is noteworthy, therefore, that eleven German bishops repeatedly visited the pope since the surrender at Munich. Without the least doubt, these are all being tipped off as to how to co-operate with Hitler in the next putsch.

Judge Gilbert O. Nations, Ph.D., LL.D., draws attention in The Monitor to the fact that on July 22, 1937, “Reverend Father” Mayer, Jesuit, was found guilty of treason and was sentenced to only six months' imprisonment for what commonly brings the death sentence; and as soon as he had been sentenced the sentence was suspended.

No Persecution of Catholics in Austria

◆ Joseph Buerckel, plebiscite director on Austria's union with Germany, explained the accord between the Nazis and the pope in the following statement:

If there are disagreements here and there between the church and the party it does not mean one side or the other is to blame. I am pleased to say that the bishops next Sunday will issue a pastoral letter supporting Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.

The United Press cabled from Vienna that it is not true that there was a general confiscation of Roman Catholic church property in Austria. The basis for the inaccurate report is that the property of the Saint Lamprecht monastery was taken over by the government because the priests there used the religious funds to support their girl friends. This information was afterwards confirmed by The International News Service.

Just before the seizure of Austria by Hitler there were discoveries of arms in the cellars of monasteries in Linz, Aigen, St. Florian and Moedling.

France has thirteen fortified churches and one fortified cathedral, that of Palavas-des-Flots, in the Herault Department, on the Mediterranean.

Coming After the Congress

Everywhere throughout Hungary it was whispered by the Nazis, "After the Congress we are coming," showing clearly that the so-called "Eucharistic Congress" at Budapest had a political objective. And, sure enough, as soon as the Congress was over, and the little piece of bread had been worshiped, a vigorous campaign to turn the country Nazi got under way, and is now spreading rapidly.

Adolf Hitler "Christian" (?)

At an address in Chicago Fritz Kuhn, Nazi leader in the United States, reported "Reverend Father" Coughlin, of Detroit, as saying, "Adolf Hitler is the only real Christian leader in the world today." This statement brought terrific applause from the pleased audience, and looks of "I told you so", as reported in the Chicago Daily Times. Coughlin could hardly fail to admire Goebbels. He has used Goebbel's stuff literatim et seriatim as his own. Goebbels is Jesuit-trained. In one of his latest effusions he placed the Führer next to the Creator by saying:

Germany need not be concerned about her future if the Lord Almighty preserves the Fuehrer's strength and health for many more years.

Silly American newspapers and equally silly press associations continue to publish stories of persecutions of the Roman Hierarchy in Germany. It has not come yet. Karl Kreisler, of Evanston, Illinois, in a letter to the Chicago Tribune dated February 7, 1939, said:

I have heard much about religious persecutions in Germany, but I would like to know just where in Germany these so-called persecutions are taking place. I returned from a trip to Europe less than seven weeks ago, and I, being a Catholic and proud of it, was never molested while attending my church in Germany. Many times I have seen Nazis dressed in full uniform attending church, and also receiving communion.

It is not as easy to lie to Catholic people as it used to be: there are so many tens of millions of booklets about, such as Uncovered, Face the Facts, and Fascism or Freedom. Edward Walters, London Catholic, wrote to the London Catholic Herald protesting the lying reports Catholics and others are expected to believe about Catholic conditions in Germany. He said, very truthfully and modestly, "We have yet to hear evidence of anything that approaches persecution in the major sense of the word," and gave a number of good reasons why the Catholic papers should tell the truth on the subject. He does not realize, poor man, how very much they prefer to lie, thus proving that they are of their father, the Devil, who is a liar and the father of it and of their "church".

Not without good reason for doing it, the Catholic Herald Citizen of Milwaukee boasts that more than half the population of Greater Germany are now Catholics, and next to Italy and France the Nazi realm has more cardinals within its borders than any other nation.

The London Catholic Herald claims that the Roman Catholic Church's influence on Italians is stronger than it has been in seventy years; also that when Hitler was invited to interfere in the Protestant Church dispute in Germany he excused himself, declaring that he is a Catholic.

Jesuit Control of Czechoslovakia

One of the early evidences that everything in Czechoslovakia was falling into the hands of the Jesuits was afforded in the case of the "Reverend Father" Joseph Tiso, premier of the central portion of the country, called Slovakia. When he planned to throw everything into Hitler's hands by proclaiming Slovakia's independence from Czechia (the Protestant section of the country), his treachery was discovered and he was ordered to go to a Jesuit monastery and remain there until further orders.

The Czechs did not dare to actually imprison him, for they knew, as appeared from later developments, that he was working under instructions from Vatican City and Berlin. He was out of his job as premier only five days, when Hitler smashed what was left of Czechoslovakia into smithereens and the desire of the pope to see Protestantism completely crushed in Central Europe was fulfilled.

Norris Willatt, of London, writes on the same subject, as follows:

Masters of the subtle art of propaganda, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy knows well that one of the best ways of making a man appear a hero is to represent him as following the path of duty when it is contrary to that of inclination.

It is therefore easy to see the hand of that Camorra behind a statement published in the London Daily Telegraph on March 17.

Referring to "Father" Volosin, prime minister of Ruthenia (before Hungary took it over), who, after assisting in the break-up of the Czechoslovak State by agitating for the autonomy of the slice of it governed by him, scuttled to Rumania as soon as his devilish work was done, the writer says:

A simple country priest, he dislikes politics and confesses they are his weak point. His position was thrust upon him against his will by his popularity.

Disregarding the question of whether one who "confesses politics are his weak point" was justified under any circumstances in undertaking the leadership of a state, all Christians who read their Bibles know that Jesus instructed His followers to keep themselves separate from the world.

As a self-styled Christian, however great his popularity (Jesus said His followers would be hated by the world), "Father" Volosin's duty under the circumstances was perfectly clear. His action shows him (and all political priests, incidentally) up in his true light.

No doubt the Hierarchy would represent it that "Father" Tiso, who obligingly delivered up Slovakia lock, stock and barrel to the totalitarians, as his fellow Jesuit did Ruthenia, was likewise led to accept the premiership of the state against his own inclination "because of his popularity". One wonders whether he will be as popular after the Slovaks he betrayed have had a taste of the Nazi medicine.

As for all those cardinals and priests who play leading roles in the subversive activities of "Catholic Action", without a doubt these would all resign from their posts tomorrow if only they were not so popular!

Still, no one should be astonished at any lies published by a body whose leader, the pope, in the course of the recent orgy of creature-worship that marked his "coronation", is reported to have uttered repeatedly the words, "Lord, I am not worthy."

Woe unto you hypocrites!

Field Marshal Goering

Field Marshal Herman William Goering, upon whom the mantle of German leadership might fall with the death of the present impotent madman, is a morphine addict and was at one time an inmate in the Langbro Asylum in Sweden. When he appealed to the Swedish courts for the guardianship of his first wife's son by another marriage, it was refused on the ground that he was not a fit person to act as a guardian. Yet he holds the fate of 80,000,000 people in his hands.

A correspondent draws attention to a World War news item* that since 1914 the international Jesuit headquarters have been at San Remo, Italy, and accompanies this information with a clipping from the London Daily Express wherein occurs the interesting information that after spending some time at this resort Field Marshal Goering and his wife and private secretary left suddenly for Berlin. This is merely one of the many straws showing Jesuit interest in the affairs and fate of Germany; for it was on the same evening that the "Reverend Father" Tiso, betrayer of Slovakia, was summoned to Berlin to receive his final instructions as to the part he was to play, and did play, in the complete annihilation of Czechoslovakia, and the very next day Hitler was in Prague. Immediately after the seizures of Czechoslovakia and Memel, Goering returned to San Remo.

Bluffing the World to a Standstill

D. W. Tomlinson, of the TWA, back from a sojourn in Germany, claims that German

* This cannot now be confirmed. Reports of an investigator are that San Remo is apparently merely a fashionable watering place on the Italian Riviera, but as such would make an ideal center for international intrigue.

factories are capable of turning out 3,000 to 5,000 airplanes a month. The factories, of which there are many, are self-contained. Many of the workers are boys of 14 or 15 serving a four-year apprentice course, at the end of which time they become very skillful. The airport at Tempelhof he describes as 4,200 feet long, with buildings six stories high, the tops of which can seat 70,000 people. Nevertheless, Germany has no gasoline. What a bluff!

International Murderers, British and American, supplied Germany and Italy with the gasoline to make possible the destruction of Ethiopia and Spain, and Germany could not fight a big war without the support of these birds of prey.

When Hitler pulls off one of his periodic war scares it is a fine thing for business; also for politicians. Just before he blasted the air with his two-hour-and-seventeen-minute speech to Roosevelt, Germany called out 500,000 men. It was expensive, but it helped business. It was calculated that in April in Europe there were 8,000,000 men under arms or notified to hold themselves ready for an immediate call. Hitler can puff out his chest and claim much of the glory of all this; also for causing conscription in England, and providing Roosevelt with an opportunity to keep in the limelight.

"Mein Kampf"—a Gangster's Primer

The book Mein Kampf, supposed to be the struggle of a poor man's rise to a position of honor and usefulness to his fellow men, is merely a gangster's primer, as will be apparent to any thoughtful person from a consideration of the following paragraph, from chapter 27. Jesuitry, the spirit of the Devil, breathes from every line.

A shrewd victor will, whenever it is possible, impose his demands upon the vanquished only in installments. The victor thus gradually weakens the character of the vanquished, making sure that no one demand is sufficient in itself to cause the vanquished to resort to arms in defiance. The more extortions that are accepted, the more unjustifiable violent defense seems to the victims, for no single outrage seems to warrant a struggle after so many outrages have been passed by in silence.

Without striking a blow, Hitler has bullied into submission and absorbed, for all practical purposes, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and Lithuania, and the end is not yet. The surrender of Rumania, politically, economically and militarily, to the Hitler regime, immediately after the complete shattering of Czechoslovakia, is admitted to be without precedent in modern history. As a result of this so-called "trade agreement", Germany arms Rumania, develops her natural wealth of oil, wheat, timber and minerals, will furnish her with all her agricultural and other machinery, will receive free ports on the Danube and on the Black sea, will overhaul the Rumanian railway system, and will furnish all the equipment for the Rumanian army, navy and military aviation, without asking any odds of Britain, France or Russia, now being definitely dragged behind the Hitler chariot.

Pulling Out the Pope's Chestnuts

Explaining why he allowed the German people to pull the pope's chestnuts out of the fire in Spain, Hitler in his reply to Roosevelt said that he did it—

for the salvation of European civilization; for if the sub-human forces of Bolshevism had proved victorious in Spain they might easily have spread across the whole of Europe.

This regard for "civilization" on the part of a man that has set the clock of civilization back at least four hundred years by placing Jehovah's witnesses in concentration camps is a good illustration of the hypocrisy of politicians.

But even that piece of hypocrisy fades when compared with the following words of blasphemy contained in the same address:

I can give vent to my deepest feelings only in the form of humble thanks to Providence who called upon me—once an unknown soldier of the great war—to rise and be leader of my dearly loved people. Providence called me to find a way to free our people from its deepest misery without any shedding of blood and lead it upward once more, and Providence has granted that I might fulfill my life's task—to raise my German people out of the depths of defeat and liberate it from the bonds of the most infamous dictate of all times. I should have sinned against my call by Providence had I failed in my own endeavor to lead my native country and my German people of Ostmark back to the Reich and thus to a community of German people.

Religion Backs Up Hitler

It is worth while noting that on Sunday, March 19, 1939, when Hitler returned from his seizure of all that was left of Czechoslovakia, all the church bells in Berlin rang with joy that the murderer had accomplished his purpose. It is also of interest that the much-battered Goebbels was back on his job of propaganda minister, too.

◆ A wireless dispatch from Berlin states that General Franco, in a personal letter to Adolf Hitler, assured that person that the new Spain, under his control and management, will definitely go along with and support the policies of Germany, Italy and their backers. What else would he do? It is all part of a definite plan to make the whole world totalitarian. Hitler, Mussolini and Franco are all Roman Catholics.

One of the very first to congratulate Pope Pius XII on his election was Adolf Hitler. The very first ambassador Pope Pius XII received was the German ambassador. The German Government was expecting to be represented at the coronation of the new pope, and to view with satisfaction the act of the German and other cardinals kissing Pacelli's ring, and the German and other bishops kissing his foot. Business is coming along fine.

In a circular to school authorities Nazi education minister, Bernhard Rust, declared that religious education is as much a Nazi service as any other branch of instruction. As a matter of fact 85 percent of the Protestant teachers of Germany still teach religious classes.

Because they proclaim God's kingdom as the only possible hope of the world most of Jehovah's witnesses who are alive in Germany are in concentration camps, but a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church having jurisdiction in Germany and Austria boasted that his church has no trouble with the Nazi powers. One would think he would be ashamed to make the claim.

The latest news about Pastor Niemöller, ex-U-boat commander, about whom Protestants have had so much to say, is that he is studying Catholic theology. That is the way for him to get out of prison—just abandon the Scriptures entirely and give himself over wholly to the pet religion of the Devil.

Definitely Turning Against Jehovah

All religionists in Germany are definitely turning against Jehovah God, the great Creator, and against those who stand for the honor of His name, His witnesses in the earth. The accord between Catholicism and Protestantism in Germany is so substantial that nobody thought anything strange of the act of Field Marshal Goering presenting the new village of Fassberg, near Lüneburg, with what is called a Simultankirche, i.e., a church which is to be used by both Catholic and Protestant congregations. There are several such, as in Wetzlar, Altenberg, and Bautzen.

As the head of the council of the German Evangelical Church, Friedrich Werner sent out the following blasphemous prayer, to be prayed in all churches on Hitler's fiftieth birthday:

Almighty God, we thank Thee that Thou hast permitted our Fuehrer and Reich's Chancellor to complete in health and strength his fiftieth year. We thank Thee for having sent to our German people through him a change of fortune from slavery and disgrace, misery and degeneration to freedom and honor, prosperity and renewed life.

We pray Thee from our hearts that Thou mayest also in the future keep our Fuehrer in Thy faithful care; preserve him in health and joyous strength and permit him to complete his work as Thou hast hitherto visibly furthered its execution.

Through Thy mercy grant that his whole nation may surround him evermore, that our armies, on land, on the water and in the air, may ever gladly serve him and victoriously protect our Fatherland in the hour of need and danger and that we may all, each in his own place, further his work according to Thy will.

Contrast this with the following from The American Guardian, and decide now where you would rather be, if in Germany: in a concentration camp or in the ranks of the Evangelical “ministry” to the Devil:

The Nazis are all a-jitter over a sect of religionists known as the International Bible Students Association (called Jehovah's witnesses in the U. S. and vigilantly prosecuted in many places, particularly where Catholics control political machinery). They are accused by Hitler's police of becoming a “Red menace”, just as all movements not worshipful of the gangster régime are called “Communistic”. What worries German business men and bankers and militarists most is that they cite Biblical verses “to prove” the imminent downfall of Hitler, and that these straws of hope are eagerly grasped by many Germans. They also fear that the organization is furnishing a rallying point for the harassed millions who hate Fascism and fight to overthrow it.

Jehovah, the Great Creator

The name of Jehovah, the great Creator, occurs in the Scriptures, alone or in combination with other words, more than 6,000 times. The Bible is Jehovah's Word, not the word of any man or men. Jesus Christ is claimed by Him to have been His Son, and Jesus always acknowledged that Jehovah is His Father. Would you think that any would dare speak lightly of Jehovah? Yet the following are headlines of various newspapers, of the dates named (all 1938):

New York Herald Tribune (Nov. 13): “Goering to Make Jewry Pay for Rath’s Death by Cession of Fourth of Its Wealth to the Nation. Theatres, Concerts, Are Closed to Them. Victims Must Repair Riot Havoc at Own Expense; Hitler’s Paper Calls It ‘Jehovah’s bankruptcy’.”

New York World-Telegram (Nov. 19): “Nazis Outlaw Jehovah’s Name.”

Newark, N. J., Ledger (Nov. 19): “Expulsion of Jehovah!”

Milwaukee Journal (Nov. 19): “Must Erase ‘Jehovah’, Reich’s Churches Told.”

New York Times (Nov. 20): “Name of ‘Jehovah’ Banned in North Reich Churches.”

New York Sunday News (Nov. 20): “Nazi Censor Bible; Eliminate Jehovah.”

Regina, Sask., Leader Post (Nov. 21): “God of Israel and Prophets Must Be Erased.”

Washington, D. C., Evening Star (Nov. 19): “Jehovah’s Name Ordered Out of Reich Churches; Erasure Decreed on Threats to Burn Edifices.”

New York Sunday Mirror (Nov. 20): “Hitler Pushes Drive, Erases Name Jehovah.”

San Francisco Chronicle (Nov. 20): “ ‘Jehovah’ Banned, Property Seized.”

Richmond, Va., Item (Nov. 25): “Hitler Bans Jehovah.”

Boston Sunday Advertiser (Nov. 27): “Jehovah Banished.”

The world of Noah’s day was destroyed for parallel cause, and the people of Nineveh were mild and justifiable by comparison. This generation is going to be destroyed, and deserves it well. It has no thought of love or reverence for the Creator. Millions of them have been taught that He does not exist.

Treatment of Jehovah’s witnesses

“The reports from the concentration camps confirm and prove the anguish endured by all interned there. The vile treatment meted out to the prisoners continues to this day. Here are some of the forms that treatment takes: blows with cudgels and beatings with horsewhips; ends of the fingers crushed in a linen-drying machine; women and children fleeing in order to escape being taken as hostages for the menfolk, the object being to overcome the resistance of the latter by ill-treatment of the former; women and girls struck heavy blows with a stick on the hinder parts; torture post bristling with nails; and finally murder itself. The family of a murdered man are not even allowed to say a prayer at the graveside of their beloved dead on the day of the funeral. The subordinate officials lay the blame for these atrocities on the authorities who are conversant with everything that goes on.

“The same infamous acts are committed in the territory of Danzig. Those who refuse to give the Hitler salute in the so-called ‘Free State’ are dismissed from their work and persecuted. The officials of that state, controlled by the League of Nations, even go to the length of giving up the Danzig Bible Students (Jehovah’s witnesses) to the German authorities. Protests addressed to the League are useless. Europe closes its eyes and shuts its ears. It is a shame that the good name of Switzerland should be compromised by one of its citizens, the present commissioner of the League of Nations.

“Crusade Against Christianity is addressed to men of good will. The author evidently thinks that some still remain. But ought not the very stones themselves to cry out against these iniquities?

“In Switzerland Jehovah’s witnesses have been refused permission to give public lectures intended to expose the crusade of the Swastika against Christianity. The pretext advanced for this refusal is the Hitler fable that they are Communists.

“Is Roman Catholicism envious of Jehovah’s witnesses? Possibly so, because of their heroic martyrs. Certainly it hates these ‘heretical laymen’ who venture to explain the Bible without Papal authority.

“The author of this recent publication dispenses with all Scriptural explanations. He ought to be a glad man and to esteem it an honor to have thus pleaded the cause of those Christians who suffer persecution and death for their faith and in defense of the cause of righteousness. If statesmen and politicians had but even a small portion of the courage that imbues Jehovah’s witnesses the numerous crimes perpetrated by the present demons in office would have been impossible.”—From the French Consolation of October, 1938.

A Sweet Morsel

SUGAR is a comparatively modern commodity. For thousands of years honey was the only sweetening substance known. A hundred years ago sugar was such an expensive article that the average person consumed about ten pounds per annum, as against ten times that amount today.

Most authorities agree that sugar-making originated in India and other parts of the Orient. The modern word sugar comes from the Sanscrit "chakara", similar to the Persian "shakar". No doubt the Crusaders of the Middle Ages brought back supplies of sugar with them and thus started the trade in that commodity between the West and the East. The royal palaces at Madrid and Toledo were built with the profits of the sugar trade.

At that time sugar was used chiefly as a medicine, and so valuable was it that explorations were made in various parts of the world to find new sources of supply. It is said that Christopher Columbus had the discovery of sugar as one of his objectives when he started his memorable journey across the Atlantic. With the advent of tea and coffee, however, sugar began to be used for sweetening purposes generally and became more or less one of life's necessities.

Until the time of Napoleon the sugar cane was the source of the sugar supplies of the world. The wars in Europe caused France to be cut off from her supplies, and so scientists began to seek some other means of manufacturing the article. Apples, pears, plums, and even walnuts and chestnuts, were tried, but with little success. The first factory for the manufacture of sugar from the beet was erected by a German chemist in the year 1802. The French soon learned of this, and less than ten years later a Frenchman, Benjamin Delessert, produced some well-crystallized beet sugar. As soon as the news reached the ears of Napoleon, he dropped all other business and rushed off to the sugar factory, where, in his delight, he pinned the Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had been wearing, onto the breast of the astonished chemist. For some time sugar made from beets was not popular, but the public soon began to realize that sugar was sugar, from whatever source it was produced, and since that time the sugar beet has been a serious rival of the sugar cane.

Sugar cannot be produced artificially. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are combined in sugar, but just how, nobody has been able to discover. Chemists say that sunshine is necessary in the combination of these three elements, and sunshine is something which the scientists of today have not as yet been able to manufacture.

Among the products of the sugar cane is molasses, or black treacle as it is known in England. This is said to be an excellent remedy for constipation, although too much is liable to have a bad effect on the heart and also on the delicate lining of the stomach. This may not be noticed for some years, however. Other by-products are blackstrap, or inedible molasses, used largely in manufacture of cattle feed, industrial alcohol and yeast. Insulating wallboards are made from the ground cane, reduced to pulp. The pulp is also used for fuel.

Sugar is also used in the sweetening of tobacco, and the manufacture of soap and high explosives, while housewives know the part it plays in canning and preserving as well as in baking and confectionery.—J. A. Williams.

The Butter Yellow Dye

◆ The butter yellow dye, used to give a nice color to that mysterious and questionable compound called "oleomargarine", causes skin disease when a strap colored with it is worn next to the wrist. Maybe you are more particular in what you have on the outside of your wrist than in what you have on the inside of your stomach. Encourage your undertaker by eating oleo dyed yellow.

New Method of Cleaning Turkeys

◆ In the new method of cleaning turkeys the larger tail and wing feathers are removed by hand. Then the bird is dried and dipped in wax. Then it is sprayed with cold water to harden the wax. Then the wax is removed and with it come all the rest of the feathers. The wax is recovered centrifugally.

Fuzzless Peaches

◆ Fuzzless peaches do not grow that way, but are made that way by a high-speed defurring machine which revolves them against brushes with just enough pressure to make them more attractive and palatable.

RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

"Fear of Man Bringeth a Snare"

◆ A witness here who came out of fleshly Israel told me recently that after attending the Memorial he reached home to find that his wife and relatives were just winding up the Passover service there. The conclusion of that service is a priestly imposition, as follows: A goblet of wine is placed on the table and the outside door is opened. He arrived just after the door had been opened, and because every one was in the next room, when they heard him enter they called out, "Who is there?" Being a wit he answered, "The angel of death." Being utterly superstitious concerning death they got hysterical, that is, the females did. Then he said, "What is this? Why do you put the wine on the table and open the door?" They answered, "That is to let the Gentiles know that we are not drinking the blood of a Gentile baby."

Herman said, "Is not this an abomination to Jehovah, that you should show fear of men? If Jehovah is really your God and you trust Him, what should you care what the Gentiles think? How do you think that Jehovah could have His name declared in all the earth if you never mention it?"—Contributed.

Learning Things at Vinco

◆ Everybody at Vinco, Pennsylvania, is learning things. Loyalty booklets were put in every home. The five members of the school board did not know of the decision of Federal Judge Maris that children cannot be compelled to salute the flag, and when they learned it they were mad; they said, Federal decision or no Federal decision, they had given instructions to the teachers to lick all the children each morning until they salute; also all Jehovah's witnesses ought to be murdered, to the accompaniment of profanity. Then the teachers were visited, and being used to using their brains (differing from the school board in this respect), they decided there would be no more flag saluting for those who did not wish to do it, and the result was that nearly one-half refused to salute any more. The citizens are learning, the school board is learning, the teachers are learning, the children are learning, and before you know it Vinco is going to be a fairly nice place to live.

Not Figuring Cost of Books

◆ Some people say the spreading of the message of God's kingdom is a money-making scheme. Very well! Jehovah's people put in approximately 13,905,000 hours a year in the service, counting time coming and going. Rate their time as worth 50 cents an hour; the value would be $6,952,500. Allow one gallon of gas a day for each worker and there would be another $1,800,000; total outlay, $8,752,500. Total received for books and booklets, not counting one cent for paper, covers, printing, binding or transportation from factory to worker, $1,060,683.15. How rich would you feel, reader, if you were engaged in an enterprise in which you annually made $1,060,683.15 (assuming that your books cost nothing whatever) and lost $7,691,816.85? And what would you think of a nut that would think you were making millions out of what you were doing, even when you offered to give him literature for nothing, provided he would promise to read it?—C. O. Shoemaker, Washington.

"God Must Have a Permit"

◆ The Reading (Pa. ?) Graphic, reporting interference with the work of one of Jehovah's witnesses in proclaiming the Kingdom as the hope of the world, mentioned that the young woman in question was ordered to stop and proceed to the city hall for a permit, and put the whole story under the startling but pointed headline, "Even God must have a permit," thus going direct to the absurdity at the heart of the whole matter. Here and there is still an honest and courageous and caustic spokesman for the public.

Odd Happening at Lykens

◆ At Lykens, Pennsylvania, where one of Jehovah's witnesses was arrested for proclaiming the good news of God's kingdom, an odd thing happened recently. The "Reverend" H. B. Rittenhouse had just completed his sermon on the text, "He shall baptize thee with fire," when his church, the Transfiguration Baptist, caught fire and burned to the ground. On the next evening the local firemen were to have attended in a body a meeting especially intended for them.

Re the Letter to Roosevelt

Mr. Robert F. Graham,

825-C Bath St.,

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Sir:

This is in reply to your letter of April 6. I note that you run quite true to form. You use the very distinctive Roman Catholic method of answering arguments. You do not set forth any facts or answering allegations, but resort to abuse by saying that my letter is "the ravings of a depraved mind" and that it is "a libelous insult to the Catholic religion" and that I "must have at some time suffered a severe head injury".

It's very easy to call names and to employ abuse of that sort, but to present facts is another matter. Catholic newspapers, periodicals and books use the same method. Not one of them comes forth with any facts to answer the allegations and statements which have been made against that church.

Doorstep method of witnessing

Judge Rutherford has published and circulated many books in many languages, from one part of the country to the other, in which facts proving fraudulent practices of the Catholic Church have been set forth. No attempt has been made to answer them, but there has been a great torrent of vilification and abuse poured out upon him. It seems that you use the same method; and apparently it comes from the head of the Catholic organization.

We can give you plenty of proof, but from the tone of your letter I do not think proof would mean anything to you. The fact that two thousand Christian people have been arrested in this country at the instigation of the Catholic clergy is one line of proof. How many Catholics have been arrested in the United States for preaching the gospel? Not one. But two thousand of Jehovah's witnesses have been arrested for that so-called "offense" at the instance of Catholic clergy.

Furthermore, with reference to the submission of proof, I would like to ask you a question. Do you deny the fifteen points set out in my letter as to the relation between Fascism and Roman Catholicism? Do you deny that the pope recognizes and supports Franco and did support him through all of his murderous attacks upon children and others in Spain? Do you deny that the pope has diplomatic relations with dictators, including Hitler and Mussolini? Do you deny that Father Coughlin's activities are Fascist? Do you deny that the Catholic Church is the main support of totalitarianism in Quebec? Do you deny that the Catholic organization supports Mayor Hague in his totalitarian rule in Jersey City?

If you honestly think those allegations are not true, please say so, and we will give you some proof.

In addition to those allegations, in my letter to President Roosevelt I submitted nine specific instances where the Catholics have infringed upon freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. Do you deny that those statements are true? Please answer.

In my letter to the president I also stated that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy carries on a racket by frightening people into paying large sums of money for protection and release from a mythical place of future punishment labeled "purgatory". Do you deny that Catholics pay money to priests for release from "purgatory"? Do you claim that there is any such place as "purgatory"? Can you give any proof in support of it?

We can furnish plenty of proof that the "purgatory" racket is conducted by Catholic priests for financial reasons only. If your mind is open to any degree at all we can give you the evidence and the proof.

If you want to discuss these matters on the basis of reason and evidence, I shall be glad to go into them with you further. But if your only method is to resort to the calling of names and insinuating that any person who criticizes the Catholic church is unbalanced mentally, then, of course, there is no further need for discussion. I would like to hear from you further.

Yours very truly,

OLIN R. MOYLE.

Baptist Preacher in Birmingham

◆ Special pioneers called the other day on a Baptist preacher's wife in Birmingham who has loved the truth for a quarter of a century. Her husband bitterly opposed it and her because of it, from the first. At times he became violent, burned her books time and again, and a year or so ago went so far as to break her arm. Members of his church took his wife's part and he apologized before the deacons. His son protected his mother at the time of the assault, and the neighbors encouraged him to do so, protesting that his mother is a good woman, as indeed she is.

The husband endeavored to force his wife to leave her home, but she does her part in making and keeping it, and the Domestic Relations Court has instructed her to stay right where she is, and report to them if her husband further molests her. However, he does all possible to keep her from getting out in the work which is so dear to her heart. Also, as the head of the home, he compels his son, still a minor, to attend his church. Through it all the wife remains true and faithful to the Lord, receives many rich blessings at His hands and knows that the time of the great deliverance draws on apace.—Ola D. Richardson, Alabama.

"Down in old Virginny"

Ninety-eight years young, and eager to hear and read about God's kingdom

Witnesses in Action in Dover, N. H.

After caretaker Brooks had given us assurance Saturday morning that the arrangement made two weeks previous still stood good for renting the Grange Hall for that night and all day Sunday, and an advertisement of the Sunday public meeting there was inserted in the Dover Democrat, the Grangers hall committee, George Kay, chairman, sent notice that due to complaints they must deny Jehovah's witnesses the hall, and locked the doors.

Sunday morning our regional servant and zone servant together called at Kay's home, who claimed he was not at liberty to tell who or what was back of this interference with our use of Grange Hall. He and committeeman Morrison pretended ignorance of Brooks' arrangement (even that Jehovah's witnesses had met in their hall before), and disavowed all Catholic instigation. No Catholic Action, eh? Well, note what followed:

Immediately after Kay's unfair action, by scurrying around other halls were hired, (1) the G.A.R. hall in Dover for the 7 o'clock meeting that night of the local and out-of-town servants of companies and for the Sunday night lecture on "Fascism or Freedom"; and (2) the Eagles hall in Somersworth, five miles distant, for the zone-assembly meetings Sunday forenoon and afternoon. About 6 p.m. Saturday the out-of-town witnesses began arriving at Grange Hall, so an information march was organized. For an hour they marched, seventeen of them, using the signs advertising Grange Hall. Some soft vegetables were thrown at them by anonymous Actionists. Also our Saturday newspaper advertisement, parallel with a religious church advertisement, on the front page, announced our public meeting as at Grange Hall. Thousands of the handbill announcements, with the Grange Hall address, were distributed both Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday noon another information march, with nineteen marchers, braved the "Palm Sunday" winds, rain and snow slush, still using Grange Hall announcement signs. No word of any change of hall was given, lest Catholic Action again get busy and break up our new arrangements. Toward 4 o'clock that afternoon a thick, heavy snowfall set in, and it looked like a black-out for the 7 p.m. public lecture. Only 28 of the witnesses were able to remain in Dover to assist. As soon as possible the majority of these went over and took possession of the G.A.R. hall, forestalling any surprise enemy action to have the doors locked in our face, with us on the outside. They would now have to evict us. Witnesses were stationed at the locked Grange Hall to redirect all strangers to the new hall. A large notice read: "Grange Hall canceled. Inquire here for information concerning new hall."

Result of a back-call at Shepherd, Mich.--20 Jonadabs

Twenty minutes to 7 p.m. an enemy sign parade marched to Grange Hall, to picket the place and scare away the public. The youths carried signs (on backs of movie picture display cards) in poor lettering: "Follow God and Be Happy"; "Don't Get Hooked"; "Religious Fanatics Be Careful"; "Hail Americanism"; "Religion for America and Americans"; "Don't Go In!"; "Hail God and Country"; "Hitler, Mussolini and Judge Rutherford Maybe?"; "They Are Traitors to Our Flag"; "Be a Patriot Stay Out." They began shouting for information, trying to involve the witnesses there in strife. "Why are you against us?" they demanded. (Who's "us"?) The timely appearance of police patrolman Allen (not Catholic) cut short an attempt at violence. One significant thing they said was: "Just wait until you have your convention in New York in June." (How did they find that out?)

Finally learning with chagrin that we had gotten a new hall, cursing they stomped over there and climbed up to G.A.R. Hall, and acted riotously. Police Officer Allen was called to intervene, and forced them to quiet down. Several times they remarked about what would happen in New York in June. Only twenty minutes late the meeting opened, the lecture proceeded (two phonographs being used, thus safeguarding a costlier transcription machine), and the audience of 71 listened. Fearing under police surveillance to carry further their vicious designs, the sign-bearing rowdies could stand no more of the heat of the lecture and went out, leaving behind their signs on the floor—and eggs too! in the hallway and on the stairs. As the ringleader Turgeon (a French Catholic) passed Police Officer Allen he sarcastically remarked: "Thanks for all your assistance!" (which they had not got. They were deliberately sent there by the priest, without a doubt.)

Despite all this the meeting was a grand success. All chairs were filled, some people were standing, and if the weather had been even fair we could never have taken care of the people in the G.A.R. hall. After the gangsters left, 16 when Part 2 of the lecture began, and 5 more after Part 6, there were 50 that heard the speech all through. Of these, 22 showed remarkable interest and asked where we met regularly. Witnesses took some home, and others left their names. Booklets (24) and one Bible were placed, and several persons lingered around till after 9 p.m. because of interest.

Various business places, including Diamond's barber shop, and several other places, which people are interested and were seen in the meeting hall, have been denounced by the priest Rene Constanti, who wrote in to the Society for those two free booklets. He told people that they would no longer be served communion in the church, and threatened these other places of business with boycott.

What? No Catholic Action behind that Grange Hall shutout? Wake up, Grange Hall committeemen Kay and Morrison and Cobb, if you are "Protestants" and Americans! —F. W. Franz, Bethel.

[The threats against the public meeting in New York in June above recorded are plain evidence of conspiracy.—Ed.] ---

Jehovah's Kingdom publishers at Elkader, Iowa

An information march at Mounds, Ill.

Monroe County (N. Y.) Penitentiary

◆ During the summer months of 1937, we asked the officials of the Monroe County Penitentiary if they would like to have us set up educational programs for the prisoners, which programs have to do with the establishment of God's kingdom on earth. The warden thought it a good idea to help the prisoners and inmates and consented. He invited us to come on the following Sunday morning, because it was the free Sunday of the month, the other Sundays being engaged by the Catholic priest and the Protestant minister. We were to have one-hour programs.

The following Sunday the sound-car was driven into the prison yard and the prisoners were marched out of their cells and made to sit on the grass surrounding the car. First we put on a musical record. This aroused the interest of inmates, guards and all others. Then followed the lecture records, Judge Rutherford speaking. At the end all looked at the car in wonder and amazement. We had been told not to have any kind of discussion; therefore we announced free booklets for those who desired them. Ninety-four were left with guards and prisoners.

The warden thought this very good and invited the car to come one Sunday per month with similar programs. Each month the car visited the penitentiary it was received with shouts of joy by the men. Each time we left booklets with those who desired them. This kept on for five or six months, when one Sunday we were told that we must discontinue our programs. Asking the reason, we were told that "Reverend" Eug. Golding and "Reverend Father" William Hollock were in charge of the religious affairs there and that they had ordered the programs stopped without giving any reason therefor. The warden seemed a changed man, evidently fearing that he might lose his political job. A few months later we learned that all the booklets left with the guards and inmates had been gathered and burned, and a drastic order had been issued that whoever failed to surrender any WATCHTOWER literature in his possession would be confined in solitary confinement on bread and water for one week. About 500 booklets were thus seized and destroyed.—A. Mulley, New York.

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